Any advice about the Older American Act for custodial care?

Contact www.nwilaaa.org/ for help
Northwestern Illinois Area Agency on Aging.
You may be eligible for a Medicaid Waiver program.
Veterans and surviving spouses can contact the VA.

to pam...... thank you for your answer.... do you know with whom I could speak to find answers to finding custodial care...... I seem to get the "pass the buck" attitude whenever I call an agency ........ no direct info is provided.

If you mean a Nursing Home, all of them are obliged to help you find financial aid. The AOA (area on aging) can send a social worker to check on her, to make an initial determination of what level of care she needs, Assisted Living, Nursing Home, Memory Care. Then you dig up five years of her financial records for the Medicaid application. If she is refusing to move to a care home, then you pursue a court order based on incapacity "Petition for Guardianship" and the Judge gives you the power to move her whether she likes it or not.